I)IIY FARM CROPPING PRACTICES lOl 



a general rule, however, the following dates of seeding 

 and planting will be found satisfactory : — 



April— I5th to 30th— Wheat. 



April— 25th to May 10th— Peas. 



May — 1st 10 days — Oats and Carrots. 



May — 1st 3 weeks — Barley and Spring Rye. 



May — 10th to 30th — Flax, Potatoes, Mangels and 

 Swedes. 



May — 20th to June 10th — Corn, Sunflowers. 

 June — 1st 3 weeks — Grasses, Clovers, Alfalfa (Grasses 

 and clovers may be sown with nurse crops at 

 an earlier date). 



75. The Amount to Sow. — Thin seeding is a recognized 

 dry farm practice. The drier the district the less seed 

 need be used while the more humid the district and tho 

 shorter the growing season the greater the quantity that 

 should be sown. Campbell recommends as little as 18 

 to 20 pounds of winter wheat, 22 to 25 pounds of spring 

 wheat, 20 to 25 pounds of oats, and 35 to 40 pounds of 

 barley per acre in the dry parts of the Western States. 

 The United States Department of Agriculture recom- 

 mends the following rates for Montana : Wheat, 1 bushel ; 

 oats, 1 to lj4 bushels; barley, 1 to 1% bushels; flax, 15 

 to 20 pounds. For the dry parts of Western Canada 

 rather heavier seedings than those recommended for 

 Montana should be used. Of course, in the more humid 

 sections of the West considerably heavier seedings are 

 necessary since a thinly seeded crop takes rather longer 

 to mature and therefore runs a greater risk of injur}'' 

 from fall frost or rust than one sown with more seed. 

 The amounts that have proven best in the average of 

 many tests at Saskaftoon which is on the edge of the 

 driest part are as follows: — ^Wheat, 1 to 1^ bushels; 



